When its cold you think about chocolate

Today it was cold and raining and I was looking for something to do indoors, I rummaged around in my stash and found an old chocolate box left over from Easter . I thought the box was quite natty the way it opened, so I had " saved it for a rainy day" ( sorry that was terrible )

I rolled out some air drying modeling paste and stamped into it, then coloured the paste with some alcohol inks and then misted with black gold Tattered Angels. When that was dry I used a little black rub n buff



 In the center I used parts from an old belt , I had been hording along with some Kaisercraft  pearls and Prima Vintage Trinkets.

                 So what will I use it for ? To store my bling bits in . 


thanks for visiting
Jan           

My little book project

I thought I would add a few projects that I have done lately, this is a little altered book I finished a few weeks back.
I used a second hand book I found at an opportunity shop for .50 cents, the painted background was painted with acrylic paint, the chipboard gate is from Scrapware and the tree with the little bird house is also Scrapware, the gate was  embossed with copper embossing powder.
And the paper  is some of the Graphic 45 " Once upon a Springtime" collection

Up to now, I have had a " Blog Fairy" (which I am extremely grateful for) enter my posts, so this is my very first .. all by myself entry..so far , so good.
All I need to learn now is how to reply to comments and I might be able to enter this new blogging world
thanks for visiting
Jan

All dressed up .....

I started out by applying air drying modeling paste to the top of the form ( you could use impasto, but I wanted the imprint of the stamping to be bolder)  you don't need any special treatment for the modeling paste to adhere,  its fine to use straight onto the form.

Then with a silicon stamp, press firmly into the paste, I allowed about 15 minutes before I painted the paste with acrylic paint and allowed this to dry over night ( this gave the modeling paste time to dry out completely)

There were a few cracks that developed over night - that's not a problem, you just use a little modeling paste to fill them in so they are not so noticeable, then a quick cover up with your paint on the repaired cracks.

Next  I used gold rub'n buff all over the surface, then sprayed a generous amount of black/gold glimmer mist over the top of the rub 'n buff ( having the rub 'n buff under the glimmer allows the gold to show through the glimmer) , but if you want a bolder gold - glimmer first.

Next I dressed the form with the Glitz Design Afternoon Muse paper and handmade paper flowers.

Thanks for looking 
Jan